Jiang Rong

Jiang Rong was born in Beijing in 1946. In 1967, he joined the first wave of intellectuals who moved to the countryside as volunteers, living with nomadic communities on the Chinese border of Inner and Outer Mongolia for eleven years. Following his return to Beijing, Jiang embarked on postgraduate studies in economics and political science and assumed an academic position at a Beijing university. Now retired, he lives in Beijing with his wife. "Wolf Totem" is his first novel. Howard Goldblatt...See more

Jiang Rong was born in Beijing in 1946. In 1967, he joined the first wave of intellectuals who moved to the countryside as volunteers, living with nomadic communities on the Chinese border of Inner and Outer Mongolia for eleven years. Following his return to Beijing, Jiang embarked on postgraduate studies in economics and political science and assumed an academic position at a Beijing university. Now retired, he lives in Beijing with his wife. "Wolf Totem" is his first novel. Howard Goldblatt is the foremost translator of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the West. He has published English translations of more than thirty novels and story collections by writers from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He has also authored and edited half a dozen books on Chinese literature. He is a winner of the Translation of the Year Award given by the American Translators Association. The founding editor of the journal "Modern Chinese Literature," he has written for "The Washington Post," "The Times1 of London, "Time" magazine, "World Literature Today," and "The Los Angeles Times," He is currently a professor at the University of Notre Dame. See less

Jiang Rong book reviews

Wolf Totem

probably ...!

this book was certainly a landmark, for me, but will probably not be as well received by others as it was for me..It's easy to get caught up in the "customer service" mentality in the world, where we ... Read More

Wolf Totem

Not just Global Warming!

Wolf Totem is semi-autobiographical/fiction about life in Outer Mongolia and the destruction of the delicate balance of the nomadic life, green pastures, and wildlife not because of "Global Warming" ... Read More

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